July 2018

July 2018 issue

Will Brexit break the Conservatives? With Europe's centre-right under threat, Prospect asks what the future holds for moderate conservatism. Plus: Julian Baggini, Samira Shackle, and Cal Flyn on learning Gaelic

Past issues

Essays

How do you solve extremism? Photo: Andrew Lyons

How to de-radicalise an extremist

Nabeelah Jaffer

Sunrise The Quiraing on Isle of Skye, Scotland. Photo: Shutterstock

A' mairsinn beò: why I'm learning Scottish Gaelic

Towns like Bury could lead a nationwide regeneration effort. Photo: Prospect composite

Make Bury great again

Mike Pompeo illustrated by Tim McDonagh.

The mystifying ascent of Mike Pompeo

Will Brexit break the Conservatives?

Cars on the Final Assembly line. Photo: PA

A Conservative vision for the future

Conservative Party General Election leaflets on a table.

New polling: are the Tories struggling in the marginals?

Prime Minister Theresa May delivers her keynote speech at the Conservative Party Conference in 2017. Photo: PA

Exclusive polling: Tories are "bad in a crisis"—and don't stand for ordinary British workers

German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Photo: PA

Can the centre right survive in Europe?

Regulars

Germany lost the game by a score of 2-4 against England who won their first World Cup title. Photo: PA

How the world reacted to England's 1966 win

Joe Burns plays a shot on day 1 of the first Trans-Tasman Test match between Australia and New Zealand, 2015. Photo: PA

Zafar Ansari vs Mike Selvey: Has test cricket had its day?

Zafar Ansari Mike Selvey

Engineers work on a small scout rover for the ESA ExoMars mission at an Airbus test centre designed to mimic the surface of the red planet. Photo: RICHARD GRAY/ALAMY

Britain in space: Is the country ready for a giant leap?

In data: May's 70th birthday bailout won't be enough to save the NHS

Stephen Collins's Cartoon: Is your MP spending too much time on Brexit?

Stephen Collins

Opinions

David Omand, former GCHQ chief. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Former spy-chief: extremism on social media could threaten the foundations of western democracy

From Prospect's June 2018 cover. George Magnus responds here

China hasn’t won yet

Yes we Khan. © ARIF ALI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Don’t be fooled by elections—the military is still in charge in Pakistan

Photo: Kris Tripplaar/SIPA USA/PA Images

The life lessons we’ll lose when the high streets fall

Hephzibah Anderson

Protests in Jordan after the previous PM resigned. Photo: MALKAWI/GETTY IMAGES

Protests in Jordan have led to a new prime minister—what happens next?

Arts & Books

The high priests of neuroscience

A clean-up team in destroyed Liga, 1941. Photo: German Federal Archive

What forced exile does to a family

From 1919. Akutagawa is second from left

A haunted imagining of the life of Ryunosuke Akutagawa

PHOTO: EVERETT COLLECTION HISTORICAL

What did Watergate feel like at the time? A new podcast tells the story

Charlotte Runcie

A plea for accountants to become boring again

Oliver Bullough

Sujatha Gidla with, left to right, her grandmother, father, brother, mother and sister. Photo courtesy Sujatha Gidla

Ants Among Elephants exposes the reality of caste in modern India

Gaiutra Bahadur

FRANCIS ALŸS/MAKHMUR,2016/IMAGE

The UK’s largest contemporary art festival—and other summer exhibitions

Emma Crichton-Miller

Sunrise The Quiraing on Isle of Skye, Scotland. Photo: Shutterstock

A' mairsinn beò: why I'm learning Scottish Gaelic

Protesters hold a sign reading "Equality is the best therapy" in 2016 © PA

Why austerity is bad for our mental health

Ben Rhodes and Barack Obama on Air Force One in 2012 © PA

Obama: "My being president appears to have literally driven some white people insane"

Steve Bloomfield

CHRIS CHRISTODOULOU

The classical music highlights of the summer

Alexandra Coghlan

NME of the people: clockwise from top left, the last ever issue; Pamela Des Barres with Alice Cooper; Suede’s Brett Anderson; the German group Can; and seventies rockers Slade

Rock of pages: it's a golden age for music writing—so why is the pleasure bittersweet?

Rude awakening: polished diners ignore the rowdy lower- classes in a 15th-century Flemish illustration. Photo: J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES, USA / BRIDGEMAN IMAGES

In praise of (occasional) bad manners

"Dynamic and strikingly sincere": The best films this summer

Photo: The Skating Rink

"Raucous and tender beauty": The best opera this month

Society and Culture

Palermo: where being poor does not mean you have to eat poorly

Sicily: where the "kitchen of the poor" means everyone eats well

Wendell Steavenson

The gaze of other people can cause insufferable pressure

Why are so many unhappy women obsessed with their own bodies?